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JQSEPH HALE` 0F -SOMEHVILLH AND WILLIAM HALL. or BHOOKLLNE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent A1 V'o.'v77,608, dated 5,- 1868.

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TO ALL WHM IT'MAY CONCERN:

Be it known. 'that we,i ToSE1 H HALE, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex, :ind WILLIAM .H Alin,` 'of Brookline, in 'the county ofNorfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented ertaiu new and vuseful Improve. ments in Rein-shackles; end'ivcdo hereby dechire thst'fthe following is aifull andenetdesoription thereof, reference being had to the aeeo'mpnnyin'g drawings, and to the letters of reference nl arked thereon.

Toennble others skilled inthe art to mke and use .our invention, ywe will proceed-*tto escribe itsature, construction, and use'.A l

The nature of our invention consists in a. peculiarly-devised shackleibr connecting reins, the detailslof which con only be understood by inspection of Athe drawings and. specification. i' l A l Drawings.

Figure l is n plan'of the-shackle.

Figure 2 is a plan of the prt contini'ng the' swivel.

Figure 3 is a. plan' of the part to which the spring is yattached.

Figure is a. longituriiuaiseetion. i o 'The construction of our shackle is ss follows, A, mndeof any'suitablo metal, is an eye, riveted, bymens of vthe pintle D, to the' l1 ousing 0 1i-gis. 1 2, and 4, in such a. manner as to be free toturn on the axis-of the pint/1e;v in other words, it, with the'housin-g C', forms-a swivel.4` y Y B .is :mot-her eye, having an elongaiteg shank, C', `whichsiip's into the housing "G, as shown in figs. 1 endl-4. H l-I, iig. 4,ismnd'e of elastic metal, and formed Substantiallyes represented in the .drwingsnso that it ini-uy serve the double purpose' of a tongue-for the eye or buekle, B, and a springlatch for holdingthe two parts.

of the swiveltogether. This tongue is represented by full lines' H Hf, in fig. 4, lend also'iu another position dotted --linos 7i h and catches when theftwo parts of the swivel are'put'together.

To lseperate the two'parts of the swivel,'we have simply to press on H', tig.v 4, this will been` the hook K Adown, which will release the parts. v

Having thus described our invention, we will now set forth our claim. What we claim as our invention, and desire toV secure by Letters Patent, is-ff As' a. new article of manufacture, a. rein-sh'ckle, made substantially as deseribed,`as ami for the purposes set forth. JOSEPH HALE,

WM. HALL.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, A.' HUN BEnnY.,

N 0, figs. 1, 2, and 4is, an opening made in the housing C, into whihltheenri, K, of the latch or tongue 

